Weekly Roundup: 4th week of August
News and happenings from WinCustomize.com
Friday, August 24, 2007 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize News
Next week is the last week of August. Fall is starting to loom which, in the customization world, is when things start getting exciting again. Here's some of the highlights from this past week.
- WinCustomize Magazine: August 2007 (emailer in process of being sent)
- This week in skinning
- ObjectBar 2.1 beta was updated this week for Object Desktop users.
- Stardock Virtual Desktops got updated for Object Desktop users.
- TweakVista was released
- DesktopX 3.5 beta was updated this week
- Internal Stardock IconDeveloper 2.0 beta updated
We've also become increasingly aware of an issue that is going to become more pronounced as users move to Windows Vista: The UAC makes it a lot tougher to have system monitorng plugins. That is, if you use Litestep, Aston Shell, DesktopX, AveDesk, ObjectBar, etc. Odds are you are going to have some difficulty with some of those CPU meters, memory monitors, drive space info, network speed info, etc. plugins. DXPerf in DesktopX, for instance, is dead on Vista. It will have to be rewritten from scratch. The entire NT-based sub-structure now falls under the purvue of the Vista UAC which prevents it from running. Definitely a bummer. But new plugins will be made, it will just take time.
And lastly, BIG kudos to the community for producing the best community suite we've seen in years: Citrium. A big hand to Buzz, fairy, Don, WebGizmos, Night Train, and everyone else who helped create that awesome suite.
Have a good weekend!
Reply #2 Friday, August 24, 2007 10:22 PM
And it is definitely a great skin! Nice to see everyone in they're chosen areas pitching in to make it that much better.
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Reply #1 Friday, August 24, 2007 7:01 PM
You got that! I have it turned off and still no luck with perf meters..